Help with Location Module
ExTexan - October 20, 2009 - 05:37
Ok, I've spent the past 3 hours searching/reading/searching/reading, and haven't found what I'm looking for. Sigh!
Can someone explain how to use the Location Module? Is it strictly API usage - meaning I have to implement it myself?
I installed it, and enabled the Location and User Locations modules - then went to create a new user to see if a drop-down selection or text box or something would magically appear to allow me to assign a location to the user. I saw nothing of the sort.
I found the documentation for this module (from the link on the project page) to be somewhat lacking. It describes in very general terms what this module does, but provides few (if any) actual useful instructions.
Please help!
You should change some settings...
go to admin/user/settings
on the bottom you should see a fieldset "Location".
Expand it and configure it as you wish( which fields are required for example)
Look for the Collect during registration checkbox
Hope that helps
Maozet
www.drupaldir.com
I see it now...
Oh my! That was easy to overlook - stuck in the middle and collapsed as is was.
Are you the maintainer of this module? Don't you think the documentation needs to be expanded to explain things in more detail?
What I want to do now is to show two groups of country/state/city form fields - one for current location, another for home location - and I want to put them in my own fieldsets. I don't want to just allow (or force) two locations in the settings for this module, coz they (the visitors) won't know what is expected for each location.
I assume I am now going to need to use the API in order to show this the way I want to. Where can I find docs that explain how to do this? I've read the location_API.txt, but I don't see how to place the fields on a form the way they appear when the location module does it for me.